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Pakistan Ambassador to the United States Jalil Abbas Jilani on Tuesday denied reports of a warning issued to Pakistan by the United States ahead of President Barack Obama's India visit.
"The Indian media has a tendency to invent and exaggerate things," Jilani said, according to IBN Live.
An Indian news agency earlier reported Pakistan had been warned of the 'consequences' of any terrorist attack during Obama's trip to India.
The media reports further said the US had asked Pakistan to ensure there are no border violations either during the visit.
Defending the government's stand on terrorism the diplomat said, "As a matter of fact US Secretary of State John Kerry, who visited Islamabad last week, had deeply appreciated the steps taken by Pakistan against terrorism and extremism."
Censuring reports Jilani added, "These actions are meant to purge our country of all such elements. These actions are also in pursuance of our policy not to allow anyone to use our territory against other countries."
The reports also stated that hours after receiving the warning Pakistan assured the US that no such attack would take place.
Earlier, Indian Army Chief General Dalbir Singh renewed his country’s oft-repeated accusation that Pakistan is supporting a ‘proxy war’ in Jammu and Kashmir.
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“Pakistan is supporting a proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir despite suffering casualties within their country,” General Dalbir Singh was cited by Indian media outlets as telling a news conference.
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@Asad: The testimony of David Headly in Chicago court, US bounty on Hafiz Saeed & India's request for voice samples of Lakhvi are not just corporate Media stories. During his trial in Indian court, Kasab admitted his Pakistani origins & involvement of Pakistani agencies. See on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AjmalKasab. His last words as reported were "Allah kasam, maaf kar do. Chhod do, aisi galti dobara nahin hogi." http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/ajmal-kasab-s-last-words-allah-kasam-maaf-kar-do-295740. You seem to have a totally different version of Kasab's statement- where from you got it? Investigative reports in international media are more reliable than rumors around us. See this http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/world/asia/in-2008-mumbai-attacks-piles-of-spy-data-but-an-uncompleted-puzzle.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&r=2&utmsource=Sailthru&utmmedium=email&utmterm=%2AAfPak%20Daily%20Brief&utmcampaign=2014_The%20South%20Asia%20Daily%2012-22
@Ram Dargad: @indian: So you guys don't believe what Kasab said? You believe the corporate media that has the tendency to cook things up for ratings and other interests. Rethink or stay in dilemma, which you people already are, for so long!
@BelieveItOrNot!: ' victim to a racist’s election speeches ' ? India cannot be ruled by a racist because Indians are a mix of many races. Punjabis & Bangalis can live together in India.
@Indian FYI neither CIA nor MI5 or interpol have a shred of evidence to link Mumbai attack to Pakistan - fact. You sir are spreading misinformation you son of a dhoti lover and any sane person would ask what prey is FBI doin in Asia in Pakistan and India investigating? So that gout know they do not have the ability or capability.
Infact it was Scotland Yard who were invited to investgate and they found no credible evidence. Any sane man knows Kasab looked Indian intact Marathi, spoke really poor Hindi but fluent Marathi whatever he spoke in that video where he was asking the Hindu God for forgiveness. More importantly he did not speak a single word of Urdu.
Now go take a dip in The Ganges.
@alansaralhaq you mean Indus Valley Civilisation aaaah predictive text don't you love that feature on your phone or tab.
Totally agree with u at onepoimt u mention PRO? I suspect this is to be read as PTI.
Totally agree and yes we are losing in the misinformation war but hey we are who we are and no amount of lies will remove Pakistan's strategic place in the world.
I am completely for martial law in Pakistan and seek an end to incompetence and treacherous feudal politics who have created their own militia to kill us u death garb of terrorism who then interact with the Daish funded by India.
Indian tactics are as old as the dhoti them gujeratis and biharis wear never changing.
:)
Let the Indian Troll back lash begin.
@Alansaralhaq: what nonsense have you written ? trigger economy? , your economy was hardly OK. It was doing bad 4 years ago from 9/11 and did bad again 2 years after that .
It did good again after that better then ever till 2008 after which it hit the ground again, stop blaming others, get your act right. Also stop lying.
@Asad: Is this what Pakistanis believe? Can’t they read Testimony of Pakistani American David Headly alias Dawood Gilani in Chicago court, sentenced 35 years. Don’t they know why US has declared a bounty of $10Mn on Hafiz Saeed? Why is Pakistan reluctant to handover voice samples of Lakhvi, required to compare with interceptions captured during the Mumbai Massacre?
@Asad: Is this what most Pakistanis believe? Can’t they read Testimony of Pakistani American David Headly alias Dawood Gilani in Chicago court, sentenced 35 years. Don’t they know why US has declared a bounty of $10Mn on Hafiz Saeed? Why is Pakistan reluctant to handover voice samples of Lakhvi, required to compare with interceptions captured during the Mumbai Massacre?
@Asad: You own tv channel geo has tracked Kasab;s home to some remote village in pakistan. Search youtube. Speaking hindi does not make you an indian. Even the FBI has evidence against Pakistan in Mumbai Attack. So keep living in denial. You will be exposed to international media sooner or later.
@BelieveItOrNot!: Yes wait and watch, if you are allowed to live that longer. best wishes to innocent citizens of an innocent nation.
@Alansaralhaq: But then where is this "Industry valley Civilization" you mention is your rather preachy write up
Unfortunately India leaves no stone to unturn to harm,defame and blame Pakistan and for this purpose India tries its best and utmost in any forms and manifestations no matter how many Indian government tells the lies before the world based on embellishment and fabrication.....
@Indian: Lol! Didn't know, we had to pay such a High Price of Innocense! At least now you know... Who is playing who! You're right! With so much bloodshed going, we can't be smart! BTW; I notice you guys were not very smart either, by falling victim to a racist's election speeches. True Democracy is going to be slaughtered there very soon. I see film sensor board has resigned today due to the Control Freak's onslaught! Let's see what's Next!
@Freeman: Read the full UK news carefully. Hope you are literate.
@Indian: Well this also does not mean that the INDIAN Media is washed with pure milk as well.
So goes for the nation as well if you have pointed out.
@AVMPolpot: Ok Pakistan Denyed, did you see OBL's dead body. What if US Army just planted a victim in their lines.
Please visit youtube and search for an interview conducted by the Indian Journalist with Gen. Musharraf, I hope that will clearly state that what does Indian Media do to confuse the Indian public as a whole and the world as well.
@Overseas Pak: Never knew Pakistan is such a innocent nation. Congrats!
ET, why didn't you report this news of British Pakistani's? http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/20/british-jihadi-jail-terrorism-offences-imran-khawaja-london-syria
@Pity: " The Indian media definitely has a tendency to cook up stories." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Pakistani media definitely has a tendency to deny facts...eg OBL presence in Pakistan.
@Pakistani: http://article.wn.com/view/2015/01/18/NoterrorattackduringObamasIndiatripUSwarns_Pak/
Don't delude yourself, relation between Pakistan and US is transaction based as claimed your own analysts. You get Paid to do what you have been told.
No warning does not mean there is a license to kill.
@excalibur: And Pakistan might cook up another Mumbai attack say in Gujarat. One thing is for sure. Modi will not react to it like Manmohan Singh did.
Jalil Abbas Jilani is a popular guy in U.S. diplomatic circles where people are polite but avoid this man. He has arrived in the US with a certain "reputation". After all, as a former diplomat based in Delhi, he was caught red-handed when he tried to provide direct material support to extremists and was expelled from India as a persona non grata. Can anyone trust this guy? His divine claim is that he is "honest" and always speaks the "truth". That's a farce and a long stretch of the bow. I would rather trust street thugs than Mr. Jilani.
@Pakistani: Are you admitting then that China and Pakistan are not natural allies like US and Pakistan.
Yet another denial. Did USA or anybody from USA State department say that this news is not true ? USA state department immediately rebuffed Pakistan's claim a while ago about getting a clean chit on terrorism. Pakistan denying facts is not a new thing. World has seen this since past 67 years.
Oh! the melodrama staged by some countries know no bounds.
@Alansaralhaq: You mean to say we don't have the like of Zaid Hameed and Oriya Maqbool Jan passing themselves off as media in our country?
US relationship is strategic, economic, business with India while it is tactical and transactional with Pakistan.
What else could be expected from the Hindu nationalist / muslim hating indian media !! Hardly any surprise
RAW will cook up another silly " terror boat' incident and blow up hapless fisherman on the high seas to please Uncle Tom
INDIA media is a biased sensationalist unethical media purposely seeking to malign Pakistan there is no independence thinking.
Not an inherent problem with Indians but Indians of a certain disposition are placed into positions of credibility and are pushing a certain kind of narrative.
Do you think the Government of USA is so gullible it too knows the emotional psyche of the Indian fragile ego.
It needs Indian economy because it is a large economy but it knows where her long term strategic interests lie too.
Even Zbigniew Brezezinski whose writings influenced the neocon think tank Project of New American Century when asked said it is Pakistan which is the lynch pin of American geopolitical intrests in the greater middle East meaning central Asia and India is a lynch pin for the Pacific.
Problem is we should enforce we do not want a client master ŕelationshio but one of equals and to do that we need Pakistan to clean up its act.
Before 911 Pakistan'silence economy was growing immensely and referred to as a Tiger Economy in Asia. Before 911 on record just ask uncle Google India was commonly referred to as The third world.
After 911 The neocons egged on by Global Zionist who have been allied with India since 1968 ( Infamous Ben Gurion speech against the Muslims of Pakistan) insisted to extend theatre of war into Pakistan. Thankfully this did not happen in an all out invasion but nevertheless the Indo Zionist lobby through Media defamed and demonised Pakistan ignoring our sacrifice.
The free market was"opened" to India like never before during the decade of Afghan War in unprecedented way and within a few years the stagnant non existentoxic Indian economy grew beyond the typical 3-4% since 1948.
As more and more Indianso emigrated to the West with unprecedented a migrations to the USA alone over decade these Indiansites hold influential positions in every possible sector and in particular the rising number of Indians in Media including broadsheets, tabloids and magazines pushing an Anti Pakistan agenda.
This has been an era of sensationalist media reporting we saw this in the pretext to the war in Iraq Libya and Syria but on the Asian front the little Indians have also been doing the same to contain China with her prize which is a defamed and paralysed Pakistan on every front.
This has been an era of misinformation and this information war is all about maintaining the threat preceptive and WE all who are in touch with this region know the history and context and know how Indians are doing nothing new but why is it so dangerous today. It is dangerous because the Indians have been given an open platform to denigrate Pakistan and her nefarious clandestine operations in Afghanistan is used to destabilise and cripple Pakistan.
Pakistanis must also be proactive to counter the narrative and this really il goes out to the ISPR in particular bit even we ordinary Pakistanis must also be proactive and counter the Indian trolls on the Internet with their profanity and wild accusations flooding message boards and comments secations.
India is in a flurry or in a scurry losing sight and influence with each day as the US pack up and go. India has failed to Contain China or influence the region because it just can not one has to see their history by their I refer to The Ganges Civilisation. As USA withdraws so does the special status given to India in the region so the Indo Zionists are busy working overtime to maintain the misinformation and threat perception. With neocons beating their drums in the corridoes in Washington things could get worse and another decade of hostility and pain.
Pakistan Army we have faith in it and ISI we have absolute faith in it. Ordinary Pakistan is despite the largest infiltrations within our ranks of spies from foreign states since 1971 we remain united so I have complete faith in he people and very foundation of Pakistan. The weakness is those who continue to push the Indian narrative inside Pakistan and hence why we need some form of a patriotic act for a limited time 5 years to root and pluck these traitors out from within. Secondly it is a weak leadership and this where we need to Culturally Change from supporting these parasite vadheras and ideally seek a French Style revolution to expunge these corrupt leaders from our ranks but given the dangerous world we live in we should be cautious in doing this but contain these we should. We ALL need to be United when I say we need martial law for a period of 3 to 4 years to straighten out our nation and make corrupt treacherous political parties and leaders redundant and silent. We do need a new fresh start as PRO claims but even they need to be supported by a major power broker namely the Pakistan. Democracy Western style does not work in Pakistan today but can once we clean up.
Pakistan has many threats of different dimensions inwardly extremism which we will win but another front is misinformation. We can change that once we have a safe secure and politically stable Pakistan by Political stability we do not mean Zardari and clan the drunkard Altaf or clueless Nawaz.
We all must be active to counter the misinformation spend some time countering the Indian Trolls but with elequoence and good articulation. Celebrate who we are The Industry Valley Civilisation and heir to the mighty Mughal Empire - We are Pakistan.
@akboi: Which Indian media, are you referring too? Of course in a country of 1.2 Bn people, there will always be some idiots which would dislike PK. This film made records in box office in India even while making fun of traditional religion. Let the civilized world judge our acts of wisdom & stupidity, not the biased neighbors.
@wiserneighbour: In that news site has given Indian Media IBNLive reference so this is also news from Indian Media.
@Muneer: @wiserneighbour Most papers UK have hoards of Indian working there, and like BBC... have great leverage of WHAT and WHO will be the news about, no surprises! Good thing is People there Have A Life Too... beside DAILY NEWS!
@Mytake: Lol! Chinese President didn't visit either! So why no Bomb exploded @ Obama's visit? Why Indian Submarine Fire & Destruction is Hushed out! Why Cricket teams are not coming to Pak recently? May be they caught a shipload of terrorist at the port! Maybe the LET & LEJ are busy in funerals of their "hanging" companions! Lol!
A couple of days back there was this story on Indian media about how ISI has funded the movie PK ... This is the magnitude of their stupidity.
The Western media widely reported that Kerry had asked Pakistan to go after militants that were attacking India and Afghanistan. It was not reported in the Pakistani media but you can find it easily via a google search on agency and other Western news sites. Given this background I don't doubt that this latest warning is true too.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-warns-pakistan-ensure-no-cross-border-terror-attacks-during-president-barack-obamas-india-1484012 this link is from a UK news portal.not Indian.
@Mytake:
US has commercial interests in India. Period.
Whether India kills 100,000 Kashmiris, rapes 50,000 women and minors in Kashmir, commits human rights violations and breaches international law, may not be a primary interest or concern at this juncture.
What India may never fully appreciate is that Pakistan and the US are the most natural allies. I know this may sound extremely strange at this point in time, but if you look at the last 60 years, Pakistan is the only country they have been able to rely on consistently for their security interests in the region.
Then why is Obama not visiting pakistan. Us has not denied the report either.
Indian media cooked Mumbai incident as well and in the end a person Kasab(named by them too) said "Ab to bhaqwaan bhi mujhe maaf nahi karay ga". Their recipes lack professionalism!
Gen. Suhaga Singh is earning his keep. The poor man. Has to do his two hands sword dance every two months to keep Modi placated. He just wants to reach retirement age and leave to become a manager in one of the big corps. Advani? Anbani? Gopani? Or is it Rolosingha? Reliance?
Most of these "spectaculars" appear to be false flag operations by Indian Intellignce RAW and are tactically timed (US Presidents visits, or election of new US Presidents) to have maximum impact.
Pakistan is accussed within minutes, the international press repeat the allegation made by the indians, no facts or contradictions are verified, the perception gets formed arround India's narrative. The objective is achieved.
By the time independent analysts start highlighting concerns, the international media has moved on to other stories. That they may have been manipulated does not appear to be of concern to these outlets.
The Indian media definitely has a tendency to cook up stories. If a crow crows in Delhi, Indian media blames it on Pakistan. So there is nothing new.....